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Sunbaneglasses
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Can anyone offer advice to someone wanting to investigate this form of file sharing?Could you recommend a good client?Or ways of finding torrents?
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[Syl]
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First, download this and optimize your system.
Second, test your speed
Third, plug your results into this. Keep this page up for a bit
Fourth, download uTorrent (tho BitLord seems a bit more popular and has many of the same options).
When you set up uTorrent, when it asks you for all the connection stuff, use the results you got back from the 4th test.
Now you're ready to go. If you're looking for stuff to download, try www.mininova.org and www.isohunt.com (there's also a search window in utorrent where you can select sites).
After you find something you want, download the torrent file and open it. This should start utorrent automatically, but if it doesn't and it asks you what you want to open it with, select utorrent.
That's it. You might want to change the options in utorrent to select a certain file where your downloads go, and if you can't find them, check those options to find out where they're going (I can't remember the default location off the top of my head).
After you've downloaded the file, try to keep seeding it until you're ratio is 1.0 or higher (meaning you've given as much info as you took). Oh, and seeds mean people sharing the whole file, leechers are people downloading (and due to the nature of bittorrent, sharing as well). Once that's done, you can delete it from the que in uTorrent.
Happy downloading... oh, and download responsibly.
***First three steps are not absolutely necessary, but trust me.
Second, test your speed
Third, plug your results into this. Keep this page up for a bit
Fourth, download uTorrent (tho BitLord seems a bit more popular and has many of the same options).
When you set up uTorrent, when it asks you for all the connection stuff, use the results you got back from the 4th test.
Now you're ready to go. If you're looking for stuff to download, try www.mininova.org and www.isohunt.com (there's also a search window in utorrent where you can select sites).
After you find something you want, download the torrent file and open it. This should start utorrent automatically, but if it doesn't and it asks you what you want to open it with, select utorrent.
That's it. You might want to change the options in utorrent to select a certain file where your downloads go, and if you can't find them, check those options to find out where they're going (I can't remember the default location off the top of my head).
After you've downloaded the file, try to keep seeding it until you're ratio is 1.0 or higher (meaning you've given as much info as you took). Oh, and seeds mean people sharing the whole file, leechers are people downloading (and due to the nature of bittorrent, sharing as well). Once that's done, you can delete it from the que in uTorrent.
Happy downloading... oh, and download responsibly.
***First three steps are not absolutely necessary, but trust me.
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Don't drink and download?
Trying it now....The Speedguide thing made a huge difference.
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No prob
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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Holy f'ing smoke! This thing ROCKS! I downloaded the entire 3-hour concert of Led Zeppelin at Knebworth in '79. Syl, you just earned yourself a free drink at the get-together in June.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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[Syl]
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Heh, glad I could help. I'll have to take you up on that beer another time, though. Can't make it.
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For large files, it's typically faster, mainly because it will download different pieces as they're available, rather than sequentially (if whoever you're downloading from logs off and you're only at 30%, you don't have to wait for that next 31% to start downloading again). It was designed to distribute large amounts of data without an equal increase in bandwidth usage.
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Bump for HLT
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
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my husband downloaded a very rare and hard to get documentary film by Frederick Wiseman...Titicut Follies!!!!
and also Loose Change!!
he loves bit torrent.
and also Loose Change!!
he loves bit torrent.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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I just blindly followed your wonderful directions.Syl wrote:Bump for HLT
Had I stopped to think I would have messed something up.
Thank you sir!
I've tried the Torrent thing before but must have used lousy programs.
This was easy.
Thanks again!
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No prob. Just remember it was confusing as hell when I first started getting into it, so wanted to help people avoid some of the mistakes I made.
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bittorrent is fantastic. I've been doing it for about 6 months now and I've saved an incredible ammount of money. I just downloaded the entire 2nd season of rescue Me-took about 2 days!
I can't wait to start watching it.
I can't wait to start watching it.
It'd take you a long time to blow up or shoot all the sheep in this country, but one diseased banana...could kill 'em all.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.